Improvement in seeding-machines



A. BUTTON.

Seeder and Harrow.

No. 106,546. Patented 0er. 23, 1370.

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Letters .Patent No. 106,546, dated August 23,1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEEDING-MACHINES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same v Harrow; and I doV hereby declare that the fol-- lowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereol, which will enable others skilled in the art to 'make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specifi-' cation.

Y This invention relates to improvements in sowing and harrowing apparatus, and consists in certain features of novelty which will be more particularly pointed out hereinafter.

Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved' machine; and

Figure 2 is a seot-ionalelevationof the same taken on the line x a: of iig-1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is a broad truck-frame, Vm'ounted on the two driving-wheels, B, and the caster-wheel C.

The wheels work loosely on the shaft D, and are arranged in the hubs to clutch with sliding clutches, E, on the shaft, feathered to it, so as to communicate motion thereto when required. I

These clutches are connected by rods or bars, F F', to the vibrating hand-lever, one above and the other below the pivot thereof, so that the movement of the lever in one direction will throw the clutches lont of connection with t-he hnbs of the wheels, and the movement in the other direction will throw them into gear with the hubs.

G' is the seed-trough or hopper. It traverses the frame, and is provided with a convex perforated bottom, H, and over it is a convex gate, L, with perforations, which will, when in one position,"coincide with those of the bottom.

This gate is .capable of sliding on the bottom H, to open or close the passages for the grain, and is provided with a handle, I, for the purpose, rising up near the drivel-s seat K.

Under the convex bottom H ot' the-seed trough is a revolving cylinder, M, with brushes, N, arranged to act on the lower mouths of the seed-holes, to keep them from clogging, and to regulate the discharge of the grain.

This brush-cylinder is operated by gear-wheels, O, deriving moton from a line-shaft, P, running from front to rear, and gearing with the driving-shaft D, also gearing with the shaft Q of the revolving harvrow, traversing the frame behind t-he seed-trough and' `carrying a skeleton frame of spirally-curved bars, R,

mounted on the peripheries of the drum-heads S, at the ends.

These bars support the projecting teeth T, which may be either in radial line-s or lilies slightly curved forward.

This barrow is also revolved by the shaft l and another similar shaft, P', on the other side, both being connected by bevel-wheels U. l

These teeth, striking upon the llumps and clous as they go into the ground, will pulverize them much moreebctually than the teethof such harrows as are drawn along the ground can do, and rising npward as they do, out of `Vthe ground at the front side, Athey have an action calculated to leave the ground much lighter than the present style will.

I do not desire to limit myself tothe arrangement of gear-wheels and shafts shown for communicating the motion i'om the driving-wheels, as 1 may use other arrangements of gearing, or endless chains and chain-wheels may be used to advantage.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters latentl. The combination, on a truck-frame A, of the broad-cast sower, consisting of the trough G and brush-cylinder, arranged and operating as described.

2. The combination with the perforated convex bottom H, and brush-cylinder M, of the `convex sliding and perforated gate L, substantially as'specified.

3. Combining, in the hopper ofa broad-cast seeder, two npwardlyconvex and perforated plates, H L, the upper sliding over the lower, to regulate the supply of seed, in thel manner shown and described.

A. BUTTON.

XVitnesses: A

J. B. ARCHIBALD, C. D. Monstruo 

